Integrating cultural and natural resource conservation is critical for
successful large landscape conservation. We are assessing the spatial
distribution and values of cultural resource using three approaches: 1)
compiling existing databases to develop multi-layer cultural resource
maps; 2) ethnographic work and surveys with cultural resource experts;
and 3) leveraging crowd-sourced landscape values from Twitter data.
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TREKS: Trails, routemaking, ecological knowledge and stewardship
study
By engaging with and actively shaping landscapes, trailbuilding
communities come to know landscapes as storied social spaces. This study
asks how trails come into being, both physically and as imagined
landscapes by their creators, managers, and users. Research is situated
ethnographically both virtually and in the Mid-Atlantic and Sierra
Nevada regions, where existing long distance trails (the AT and PCT) and
proposed trail management plans shape local conservation and recreation
landscapes. Visit the OSF page for
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